Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Traumatic Brain Injury
- Anatomy of the Brainstem
- It causes
- Unconsciousness
- OTHER CAUSES
- Drug overdose
- blood loss
- alcohol consumption
- Syncope
- low blood pressure
- Car accidents
- Types of injure
- Aquired
- Traumatic
- open brain injury
- closed brain injury
- non-traumatic
- it causes
- concussion
- results in an altered
mental state
- signs & symptoms
- memory problems
- confusion
- double vision
- headache
- slowed reaction to
stimuli & sensitivity to
light or noise
- Post-concussion syndrome
- Caused by structural
damage to the brain
or disruption of the
messaging system
within the nerves
- Risk Factors
- old age
- female gender
- Pathophysiology
- Types
- Traumatic Parenchymal Injuries
- Direct parenchymal injury
- Contusion
- Laceration
- Diffuse axonal injury
- Concussion
- Traumatic Vascular Injuries
- events
- Primary injury (impact)
- Secondary injury
- Cerebral edema, ischemia, hypoxia
- Brain herniation
- Neurologic deficit
- Infection
- Increased ICP
- Types of hematoma
- Management
- GCS
- Mild : 13-15
- moderate: 8-13
- severe: less than 8
- History
- vital signs
- Neurological Examination
- investigations
- Skull X-Ray
- CT Brain
- MRI
- Anti-epileptic agents
- phenytoin
- levetiracetam
- carbamazepine
- sleep cycle